Unmitigated England

A Country Lost and a Country Found

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Friar & Goblet

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I can't tell you how long I've waited to get my hands on one of these. I must have seen it first as a boy, perched up on grocers...
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Sunday, 15 May 2011

This Way

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I've always loved this. It shows just how brilliant some local signing was in the past before the impending national homogeneity took ov...
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Friday, 13 May 2011

Howzat

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Jonathan Meades once wrote that I had an eye for 'wonky cricket pavlions' and he's right. Compiling photographs for a Leicester ...
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Monday, 9 May 2011

The Art of Flower Arranging

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The drovers' lanes and wide-verged enclosure roads of High Leicestershire are currently billowing with characterful cow parsley. You may...
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Matchless Festivities

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Sixty years ago yesterday saw the opening of the Festival of Britain. Although celebrated with events all over the country, it centred on Lo...
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Monday, 2 May 2011

Magic Marker

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The end of April, and a walk on a recently discovered and delightful path through the beeches and ash trees of Wardley Wood on the Leicester...
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Saturday, 30 April 2011

Unexpected Alphabet No 16

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Well, what a day. Everything from the High Victorian visions in Westminster Abbey- red uniforms and internal green trees like it must have b...
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Peter Ashley
I am a designer, writer and photographer who spends all his time looking at England, particularly buildings and the countryside. But I have a leaning towards the slightly odd and neglected, the unsung elements that make England such an interesting place to live in. I am the author and photographer of over 25 books, in particular Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2006), More from Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2007), Cross Country (Wiley 2011), The Cigarette Papers (Frances Lincoln 2012), Preposterous Erections (Frances Lincoln 2012) and English Allsorts (Adelphi 2015)
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